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Early R.S. was obsessed with replacing Latin with a "rational" language see Wilkins and the Real Character. So I can believe that Newton could accurately transcribe his pronouciation.
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Legend has it that Charlemagne, or Big Chuck, worried that linguistic drift would render God unable to understand our prayers.
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Yeah thats what you do after a siege.
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indigi posted:good Also cool. What a place to rob. Me, I've had a fancy for the Vatican catacombs since I was a child.
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birdstrike posted:
cspam addressing the mods
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The painting is Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed Here is the reply quote:Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
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I've read that Zaporozhian letter innumerable times yet have only just realized that the ability to kill a hedgehog with ones unclad buttocks was apparently considered a basic skill by the members of the Zaporozhian host.
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Zaporozhian Cossack: Tsar, can we have gom jabbar? Tsar: We have gom jabbar at home. at home:
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Ghostlight posted:Zaporozhian Cossack: Tsar, can we have gom jabbar? lol i get it
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Victory Position posted:St. Augustine? never heard of it my favorite little bit in the St Augustine Starfort History Museum (it's rad, everyone who makes the mistake of being near Florida should go to it) is that when the British? showed up the Spanish garrison's response was "thank loving god, we don't have to be in a lovely florida swamp anymore, we can return to civilization"
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Firstscion posted:Yeah thats what you do after a siege. Funny story... Arundel is in the southern part of England, not far from the coast. During the 100 years war, the French would raid southern England in order to steal anything that wasn't nailed down. So the towns appealed to Sir John Arundel to come and defend them, and he promised that he would if they paid him a big sum of money. So they raised a bunch of money and gave it to him, and he moved his army into the towns where they began... stealing anything that wasn't nailed down. Eventually the King of England sent over a bunch of boats so they could ferry the army over to France so they could steal stuff from France. But the winds were wrong and the boats couldn't leave. So, bored, he told his army they could go plunder some local nunneries and kidnap the nuns as sex-slaves. Eventually the winds came back and they set sail for France, taking the women with them. However, when a storm came up, Sir John ordered the women to be thrown overboard to save weight. Unsurprisingly, this wasn't enough to save them, and all 25 ships were lost at sea, with only seven survivors. Sir John Arundel's body was recognized by a fancy ring, which was cut off by some lucky Irishman. In conclusion, gently caress Arundel.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:my favorite little bit in the St Augustine Starfort History Museum (it's rad, everyone who makes the mistake of being near Florida should go to it) is that when the British? showed up the Spanish garrison's response was "thank loving god, we don't have to be in a lovely florida swamp anymore, we can return to civilization" It was almost comical how many time St Augustine got burned down in raids but people still figured it would be a good reason to stick around. Also other events like the yellow fever epidemic that wiped out 30% of the town's population.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Glass brain i'm the scolding hot ash
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:some cave arts play animations when illuminated by a flickering torch since the begining of time, man has been cursed by video exhibitions at art museums...
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:some cave arts play animations when illuminated by a flickering torch The herzog film cave of forgotten dreams had some really cool demonstrations of this effect.
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I would like to thank all of you for a great thread. I've spent my good Sunday morning and a pot of coffee reading the entire thread and its awesome. Thanks!!
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So uhh how did they all die at once...?
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Slavvy posted:So uhh how did they all die at once...? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaeronea_(338_BC) That's my guess
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twoday posted:https://twitter.com/SumerianHittite/status/1406482112010653696?s=19 Isn't that the back end of a disposable chopstick, like one of the comments say?
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Kassad posted:Isn't that the back end of a disposable chopstick, like one of the comments say? Hmm yes but after looking into it it seems that many styli were at least partially squared in form  though there were of course many styles  Seems that all the Twitter cuneiform ones use rectangular ones, I’m guessing they are all writing some particular script that is easier with one of those?  https://twitter.com/digirnanna/status/1387581102232068096?s=20 twoday has issued a correction as of 23:14 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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Tulip posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaeronea_(338_BC) The traditional hoplite infantry was no match for the novel long-speared Macedonian phalanx: the Theban army and its allies broke and fled, but the Sacred Band, although surrounded and overwhelmed, refused to surrender. The Thebans of the Sacred Band held their ground and Plutarch records that all 300 fell where they stood beside their last commander, Theagenes. Their defeat at the battle was a significant victory for Philip, since until then, the Sacred Band was regarded as invincible throughout all of Ancient Greece. Philip II, on encountering the corpses "heaped one upon another", understanding who they were, wept and exclaimed: shame on him who thinks them shameful
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CoolCab posted:“peking” and “bejing” are both transliterations of the same word, separated by a what few hundred years of linguistic drift. we don’t know that eeeee will be pronounced like we do a hundred years from now, I think that’s the justification? this reminds me that the roman alphabet is a better alphabet for Chinese than English lol edit: if you didn't know, mainland china uses the roman alphabet as their alphabet and it rules. English uses it and you get poo poo like 'through' and 'threw' lmao
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Tbf that is because a) words entered before, between and after the vowel shifts and b) the people who wrote Middle English words down really really wanted you to know which were the good, French words and which were the nasty, no good old english words
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